VPN Job Trends in Essex

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Essex requiring VPN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 43 48
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 +12
Permanent jobs citing VPN 15 8 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Essex 2.04% 1.72% 0.73%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.94% 21.05% 5.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15 5 2
10th Percentile - £26,550 -
25th Percentile £25,750 £27,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £28,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -34.12% -37.96%
75th Percentile £40,750 £32,000 £47,500
90th Percentile £41,500 £36,800 £49,000
East of England median annual salary £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% +16.79%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Essex

VPN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Essex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 216 38 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 29.39% 8.17% 14.15%
Number of salaries quoted 73 25 39
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,600 £26,000
25th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £40,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £48,750 £50,250 £42,500
90th Percentile £63,200 £52,100 £59,550
East of England median annual salary £40,000 £50,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year -20.79% +5.21% +12.94%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VPN relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Essex.

VPN job vacancy trend in Essex

VPN
Salary Trend in Essex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing VPN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing VPN

VPN
Salary Histogram in Essex

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in Essex over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for VPN in Essex

VPN
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Essex region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Grays - 5 £35,000 -
Saffron Walden - 5 £26,500 -
Basildon - 4 £41,000 - 1
VPN
East of England

VPN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) Azure
1 15 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (93.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (100.00%) DHCP
1 15 (100.00%) DNS
2 5 (33.33%) Firewall
2 5 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.67%) LAN
3 1 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (6.67%) VLAN
3 1 (6.67%) WAN
3 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
General
1 15 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Desktop Support
2 5 (33.33%) Help Desk Technician
2 5 (33.33%) IT Technician
2 5 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Technical Support
2 5 (33.33%) Technical Support Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 4 (26.67%) 2nd Line Support
3 4 (26.67%) Desktop Support Team Leader
3 4 (26.67%) Desktop Team Leader
3 4 (26.67%) Lead
3 4 (26.67%) Support Team Leader
3 4 (26.67%) Team Leader
4 1 (6.67%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (60.00%) Windows 10
2 9 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.67%) Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Customer Service
1 14 (93.33%) Service Delivery
2 10 (66.67%) ITIL
3 5 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
3 5 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
3 5 (33.33%) Proactive Maintenance
3 5 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
4 4 (26.67%) Remote Monitoring and Management
4 4 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (6.67%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Bash
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) A+ Certification
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (26.67%) Azure Certification
2 4 (26.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 15 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) VMware